From: Zhouzhuang River.
The breeze blows the green willows,
White water reflects people's hearts.
On the blue waves,
People travel in the world of painting.
Wang Wei, a native of Zhou Qi, Taiyuan (now Qixian County, Shanxi Province), was a scholar in the ninth year of Kaiyuan and was appointed as a great success. Therefore, he was demoted to Jeju treasurer to join the army. Zhang Jiuling became prime minister, promoted him to right gleaning, and transferred to supervise the suggestion. In the Anshi Rebellion, he was captured by the rebels and was given a false post. After recovering Chang 'an and Luoyang, he was demoted to Prince Zhongyun, and later promoted to Shangshu Youcheng, known as Wang Youcheng in history. Wang Wei was ambitious and enthusiastic in his early years, and wrote some high-spirited poems. After Zhang Jiuling's strike, he gradually turned to depression, believed in Buddhism, lived in seclusion for a long time, and wrote a lot of pastoral poems, showing a negative tendency to escape from reality. However, some landscape poems are vigorous and clear in style, which vividly describe the beauty of the motherland's rivers and mountains. They are praised by Su Shi as "paintings in poems" and become outstanding representative writers of the pastoral poetry school in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which has promoted the poetic art of describing natural scenery since the Jin and Song Dynasties. Wang Wei is a great poet except Li Bai and Du Fu. Wang Wei is versatile. Besides writing poems, he is also interested in painting, music and calligraphy. He can apply painting theory and music theory to poetry and achieve the artistic height of perfect combination of poetry and painting. There are Wang Youcheng's poems and more than 400 poems.